RegulationAug 21
The EU's New Reporting Rules — What Changes for You in Q1
CSRD's second-wave scope pulls in another 30,000 companies. Here's the assurance timeline nobody flagged in the summary decks.
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We reviewed forty early filings. Here’s where the assurance providers are pushing back hardest, and the two supplier-data gaps that keep failing review.
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CSRD's second-wave scope pulls in another 30,000 companies. Here's the assurance timeline nobody flagged in the summary decks.
Insetting, engineered removal contracts, and why three Fortune 500 procurement teams quietly stopped buying avoidance credits this year.
A trace of one jacket from fiber to shelf, and the supplier-tier visibility gap most Scope 3 programs never close.
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California’s SB 253 enforcement window opens — three gaps in Scope 3 filings
Morning — forty early SB 253 filings crossed our desk this month, and the pattern is already clear: assurance providers are rejecting supplier-specific Scope 3 data almost twice as often as last year’s CSRD dry run.
“The filings that pass review treat supplier data like financial data — versioned, sourced, and reconciled.”
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— Priya Fontaine, Editor
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